Mustafa Osman Ismail (Mr. Smile)

Such sensitivity did not prevent him from discussing an increase in Chinese investment with Mustafa Osman Ismail an adviser to Sudanese President Omer Hassan el Beshir when Ismail visited Beijing on 7-11 July...

The campaign to win over Arab states has even since the SPLM/A's Lam Akol Ajawin became Foreign Minister last July been fronted by Northern politicians including Lam's predecessor Mustafa Osman Ismail and Ali Ahmed Kurti ex-coordinator of the notorious People's Defence Force militias...

The following day an uneasy looking Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail ('Mr...

At that stage after the outright rejection of the resolution by Information Minister El Zahawi Ibrahim Malik (a usefully deniable old Umma Party sidekick of Mubarek Abdullahi el Fadl el Mahdi also in government) Mustafa Osman was unable to clarify whether the NIF would comply with the resolution pending a Council of Ministers meeting the next day...

No visible plans to disarm militias Speaking from his high-rise office in Khartoum Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman told Africa Confidential he had seen no plans to disarm the Arab militias; 'That's being handled by the security people' but said that the Joint Implementation Committee of Sudanese and UN officials set up to implement an earlier Darfur peace plan agreed between President Omer el Beshir and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had developed 'a roadmap' for security in Darfur...

Yet as Mustafa Osman was speaking reports arrived at the UN offices in Khartoum of serious clashes between government police sent to Kalma camp in South Darfur and residents who claim the police tried to forcibly evict them from the camp...

When AC asked him where he expected to be in a month when the UN deadline runs out Mustafa Osman replied 'I have to start by being confident'...